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On Monday 29 October 2007 17:41:30 john.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Is there a distro which may be loaded using floppies only? The old > laptop does not have a CD drive. > Alternatively is there a way of transferring the content of a distro CD > from a PC with CD drive to the laptop with only floppy drive and no USB. > Presuming the laptop has a network interface you can make a boot floppy then install over the network/Internet. Debian can boot the installer from two floppies then install from a web/FTP server. You could also network boot using BOOTP and TFTP (if that laptop supports it) but that's a lot more effort. Regards, David. -- David Johnson www.david-web.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html